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#3377717 28-May-2025 16:18

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Windows has so much legacy code, supporting so much old crap, and trying to be everything at once (home? business?) that it can only get bigger and bigger.

Add to this all the AI crap they are putting in there, and it can probably seriously kill the most powerful CPUs available these days.

i would half challenge that.

Win32 I think is what one is referring to, which I think is now a sub-system rather than part of the OS.

Personally, I have not noticed things ‘slow down’ as such - what I have noticed is the new hardware is much faster. This kind of means my patience to wait for old hardware gets shorter :)

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#3379978 2-Jun-2025 17:17

Tonight's dinner recipe asks me to chop chopped chopped walnuts.

The ingredients list calls for "chopped walnuts, chopped" and then the method asks me to chop them.

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#3379993 2-Jun-2025 20:53

Behodar:

Tonight's dinner recipe asks me to chop chopped chopped walnuts.

The ingredients list calls for "chopped walnuts, chopped" and then the method asks me to chop them.

Would have been clearer if it said: “Finely chop the chopped walnuts”.

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#3380056 3-Jun-2025 09:46

All on the same TradeMe page:

OK...

Huh?

wait... what?

LMAO!

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#3380119 3-Jun-2025 11:01

I weep for humanity. Someone at work wanted to work out the date three months from 26 May. She was apparently incapable of coming up with 26 August on her own, and ended up asking Copilot.

It got it wrong.

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#3380134 3-Jun-2025 11:34

Behodar:

I weep for humanity. Someone at work wanted to work out the date three months from 26 May. She was apparently incapable of coming up with 26 August on her own, and ended up asking Copilot.

It got it wrong.

I'm not surprised, "<n> months after" is a surprisingly difficult thing, because months have different lengths.
I recollect an animated discussion with an HR Policy Advisor who wanted something to happen "six months after <something>" and thought I was being obtuse or obstructive when I asked him to be more precise. Then I asked him: "For example, what is six months after 31st August?", and he suddenly saw the problem. After a referral to the Principal Policy Advisor, People and Business - a very senior person - we agreed that my peculiar idea of 182 days would be adequate.
"Bloody IT people, always making simple things complicated" LOL

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#3380136 3-Jun-2025 11:43

Indeed, the longer I work in a corporate environment the more I realise that precision is something valued by surprisingly few people.

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#3380139 3-Jun-2025 12:04

I would just assume that a month means a month and it doesn't matter how many days there are.

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#3380146 3-Jun-2025 12:33

I think that comment illustrates the problem quite well...

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#3380148 3-Jun-2025 12:41

cddt:

I think that comment illustrates the problem quite well...

No problem at all. Six months is six months. 181 days is 181 days.

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#3380149 3-Jun-2025 12:46

eracode:

Behodar:

Tonight's dinner recipe asks me to chop chopped chopped walnuts.

The ingredients list calls for "chopped walnuts, chopped" and then the method asks me to chop them.

Would have been clearer if it said: “Finely chop the chopped walnuts”.

I dont understand walnuts that need any chopping at all.

I have some in their shells, I cannot get the walnuts out without reducing them to tiny pieces in the process.

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#3380151 3-Jun-2025 12:48

Rikkitic:

cddt:

I think that comment illustrates the problem quite well...

No problem at all. Six months is six months. 181 days is 181 days.

I thought the same thing. If its a reminder to 'check that person has ticked HR required box by doing certain thing' then 'same day of the month as today but increment month by 6' ** would be perfectly adequate.

What's the scenario where you need to be 182 days or almost exactly half a year ?

** add your own wrap around pseudo code as you see fit.

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#3380161 3-Jun-2025 13:15

elpenguino:

I thought the same thing. If its a reminder to 'check that person has ticked HR required box by doing certain thing' then 'same day of the month as today but increment month by 6' ** would be perfectly adequate.

What's the scenario where you need to be 182 days or almost exactly half a year ?

Because then you are looking at dates like the 31st of February.

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#3380162 3-Jun-2025 13:20

Rikkitic: I would just assume that a month means a month and it doesn't matter how many days there are.

https://joelclermont.com/post/2011/09/14/date-calculations-are-more-complex-than-you-think/

Rikkitic: No problem at all. Six months is six months. 181 days is 181 days.

But 181 days is not necessarily 6 months. When most people say '6 months', they mean keep the day of the month the same, but increment the number of months by 6 and if required, the year by 1.

Starting on 15th Jan, that gives you 15th July in 3 out of 4 instances, equals to 181 days. However, not in leap years. So when your process says 6 months and you use 14th July in the leap year, your process fails the '6 month' test because it's not the 15th July. Thus, see the above link.

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#3380166 3-Jun-2025 13:25

If you want more precision, you go to a smaller scale, i.e., days rather than months. There shouldn't be any confusion, because you don't use different units to measure different things, i.e., you don't use litres to weigh kilos. I don't see the problem.

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